Focus Features’ Paul Getto Joins Universal Studio Group To Oversee Strategy & Business Development

The UK’s public broadcasters and broadcasting union have taken their first step to forging an “industry-led strategy” to address the current freelancer crisis.

Legendary Beatles star Paul McCartney is giving fans a glimpse inside the band’s "innocent" rise to fame in never-before-seen photos.  During the historic 1964 Beatlemania tour, the iconic band "dominated the world" as the members took the world by storm in their early 20s.  McCartney, John Lennon, Ringo Starr and George Harrison went on a global tour that spanned over six cities: Liverpool, England; London; Paris; New York; Washington, D.C.; and Miami.  Amid their rise to fame, the now 80-year-old McCartney snapped a few camera shots of their adventures which are highlighted in his first photo book, "1964: Eyes of the Storm." With more than 200 pictures, McCartney takes fans behind the lens through candid photos of himself and his bandmates enjoying a journey of a lifetime. "It shows when this group… just dominated the world, became a worldwide sensation," "1964: Eyes of the Storm" editor Robert Weil told Fox News Digital.  Pictures capture an overwhelming number of photographers and fans doing everything they can to snap shots of the famous English rock band.

Paul McCartney sat down with Conan O'Brien for a podcast recording of. And while looking at old photos of himself and his former Beatles bandmates, McCartney opened up about the late John Lennon, explaining why he looked so vulnerable in one of the images on display. "[John] had a really tragic life," McCartney said.

Naman Ramachandran Suzy Eddie Izzard (“Stay Close”) and Ed Speelers (“Outlander”) are the new additions to the cast of “Midas Man,” the delayed film on The Beatles manager Brian Epstein that has now wrapped filming. The film began production with Jonas Akerlund (“Lords of Chaos”) as director, who departed the project for unknown reasons. Sara Sugarman (“Vinyl”) was attached to the project for a year before Joe Stephenson (“Doctor Jekyll”) stepped in. Stephenson has just wrapped the shoot, canning what will be 95% of the completed film, Variety understands. Written by Brigit Grant, the film follows Epstein, manager of The Beatles from 1962 until his untimely death at the age of 32 in 1967. Epstein’s impact extended beyond the Fab Four, encompassing British Invasion acts such as Gerry and the Pacemakers, Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas.

EXCLUSIVE: Kevin Mayer and Tom Staggs’ Candle Media has hired a UK development boss for its fledgling True Stories label.

Married at First Sight UK love expert Paul C Brunson has revealed that things are about to get a bit more personal in the next season of the hit dating show. Matchmaker Brunson is one of the three experts who help hopeful romantics find their ideal marital partner, and with the new season just around the corner, he has let slip some important new information. Speaking to The Sun, Brunson divulged that he and fellow experts Mel Schilling and Charlene Douglas, for the first time in the show's UK history, will be visiting the matched couples in their apartments to share relationship advice.

Sophia Scorziello editor Paul Geoffrey, an English actor known for his roles in “Excalibur” and “Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes,” has died. He was 68. Geoffrey died on June 3 in Santa Fe, N.M. from a battle with cancer, the Santa Fe New Mexican reported. “A thespian to the core, Paul continued to act for the remainder of his life. He loved French wine and food, had a stunning grasp of history, was a life-long Arsenal fan, and excelled at being the sweetest guy in the world,” the Santa Fe New Mexican said of Geoffrey. Throughout his acting career, Geoffrey starred as Perceval in the 1981 film “Excalibur,” a medieval fantasy film that retells the legend of King Arthur and the knights of the round table. The film won best artistic contribution at Cannes in 1981 and received an Oscar nomination for best cinematography.

Paul O'Grady and attended his funeral, he wasn't as close to the late comedian as his "real friends" like Julian Clary, 64. While speaking to actress Kathy Burke, 58, on her Where There's A Will, There's A Wake podcast, Alan was keen to set the record straight after becoming frustrated with "some of the celebs who have come out the woodwork" claiming to be close to Paul.

Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Throughout the explosive period in the early 1960s when the Beatles rose to unprecedented fame with hits like “Please Please Me,” “From Me to You” and “She Loves You,” Paul McCartney was quietly snapping shots on his 35mm camera to commemorate the moments that we now know would change music history forever.

RuPaul is the undisputed queen of self-confidence — and he shares his tips for learning how to love yourself in the new issue of Us Weekly.

EXCLUSIVE: Bestselling author Ruth Ware’s latest novel, Zero Days, has been optioned by Universal International Studios, a division of Universal Studio Group. According to sources, UIS landed the book in a bidding, with 10 parties — both U.S. and UK — pursuing the title, which will be published June 20 by Gallery/Scout Press and July 6 by Simon & Schuster UK.

Marvel‘s Spider-Verse franchise in a new interview.The suggestion came up while Isaac was speaking to to the British edition of GQ to promote the latest animated Spider-Man movie, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.Isaac – who voices Spider-Man 2099, a futuristic version of the web-slinger in the film – was asked by journalist Lucy Ford if there was anyone he hoped would join the cast in the franchise’s coming films.“I don’t know,” he responded. “They’re so brilliant at finding the right person for the right character, but maybe Pedro Pascal.

Paul O'Grady’s husband has announced more sad news just weeks on from the TV star's death

Britain’s Got Talent legend Paul Potts has hit out at new judge Bruno Tonioli for his choice of colourful language, after Bruno turned the airwaves red with his swearing during this weeks semi-finals. Paul, who famously won the very first series of the show as an opera singer back in 2007, took issue with Bruno’s swearing, as he insisted the former Strictly Come Dancing star needed to “ring it in.” The swearing furore first kicked off on Tuesday, when 67 year old Bruno accidentally swore live on air as the judges were watching daredevil Andrew Stanton perform a series of gruesome tasks.

Just two months on since the tragic death of much loved entertainer Paul O’Grady, his husband has been hit with a second round of heartbreak as he confirmed two of the late star's pets have also died. Andre Portasio, Paul’s husband of 17 years shared the heartbreaking news on Thursday, as he revealed that the couple's pet goats, Maleficent and Beebo, sadly died on the same day.Taking to Instagram to share the news, Andre posted a photo of Paul alongside the adorable animals as he wrote: “Bad news that keeps on coming... a very sad day at our house.

EXCLUSIVE: Too Hot to Handle co-creator Laura Gibson has joined Universal International Studios production company Monkey Kingdom as Creative Director.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor In “The Old Oak,” which played in Competition in Cannes, Ken Loach portrays a village in the North-East of England where the indigenous white community comes into conflict with Syrian refugees – a conflict fuelled by the despair, deprivation and decline of the rust-belt region. Such conditions can be a seed-bed for far right groups, the director tells Variety. Such issues have not been explored sufficiently in film and television, Loach says, and he draws a parallel with the portrayal of the rise of Nazism in Germany in the mass media. “We have endless programs about the Second World War, about the horrors of Nazism and fascism, about the racism, about the Holocaust. Quite properly, we have endless programs about that, but what they refuse to point out is that that arose from alienation, anger, feeling cheated, and finding scapegoats. And that’s how we ended up with Hitler, and that’s the ground in which the far right flourishes. One of the points of the film is to say: This is the cause of fascism. This is where it comes from. This is its seed-bed, and it comes as an inevitable consequence of our economic system. Because if the neoliberal agenda was an essential development for capitalism, to use the old-fashioned word, then that’s where fascism comes from. Implicit in that is that the far right will rise because that’s how people will be heading. And they know that and yet the mass media, the press, just turn their backs on that. They’ll tell us all about the horrors of Hitler. Sure. But they won’t tell us how he came to power. And that’s the huge lesson. And we see it in essence now all the time.”

Paul Heaton has announced that he will be leaving some money behind at a few local pubs during the Neighbourhood Weekender festival.The Housemartins and Beautiful South legend took to social media to announce the free rounds of pints for those who will be in attendance of the festival.The statement posted to Heaton’s official social media accounts read: “As a thank you, and a small amount of help during the cost of greed crisis, Paul is leaving some money behind the bar at a few local pubs in Warrington so that some of you attending @nbhdweekender this weekend can have a drink on him.”According to the statement, the pubs that are involved are The Bull’s Head on 33rd Church Street, The King’s Head on 40 Winwick Street and The Cheshire Cheese on 654 Knutsford Road which are all near the festival’s site of Victoria Park.As a thank you, and a small amount of help during the cost of greed crisis, Paul is leaving some money behind the bar at a few local pubs in Warrington so that some of you attending @nbhdweekender this weekend can have a drink on him….(click on attached image for more info) pic.twitter.com/opH5HPcAv1— Paul Heaton (@PaulHeatonSolo) May 26, 2023The festival’s own pub, The Neighbourhood Inn, will also take part for any attendees who plan on heading in early to catch any acts. They will be offered a drink token for the pub on the way in the festival on a first come, first served basis.The statement ended with a confirmation of a “Similar process” that “will be running local to the other Paul Heaton shows over the summer.

Only nine directors have ever won the Palme d’Or twice. Francis Ford Coppola did it in the ’70s with The Conversation and Apocalypse Now. Ruben Östlund joined the club last year after following The Square with Triangle of Sadness. But this year, there is a very real possibility that, at 86, Ken Loach may go above and beyond that by winning a third Palme for his new film, The Old Oak. Loach first won in 2006 with the historical Irish drama The Wind That Shakes the Barley, then doubled up in 2016 with I, Daniel Blake, a caustic study of Britain’s healthcare crisis. After that came Sorry, We Missed You, a no-less withering look at the punitive gig economy. Like the latter two films, The Old Oak is set in the North East of England and completes an unofficial trilogy, this time with a slightly more optimistic bent. Like all of Loach’s output since 1996, it was written by Paul Laverty, and the pair sat down with Damon Wise to discuss the film’s themes of humanity and social responsibility.

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